Burma's Suu Kyi 'in poor health'
Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (file photo)
Ms Suu Kyi's latest detention is due to expire at the end of May
Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is suffering from low blood pressure and dehydration and is barely eating, her party spokesman says.
Nyan Win said they were extremely worried about the 63-year-old Nobel Laureate's health.
A medical assistant has placed Ms Suu Kyi on an intravenous drip. Her own doctor was reportedly detained after visiting her earlier this week.
Ms Suu Kyi She has been under almost permanent house arrest since 1990.
It followed the victory of her National League for Democracy (NLD) in a general election in 1990. The junta has refused to allow the party to assume power.
Ms Suu Kyi's latest period of detention is due to expire at the end of May but the authorities have not yet said if it will be extended.
Break-in
"We are very concerned about her health and security conditions," Nyan Win of the NLD told the BBC.
He said Ms Suu Kyi had suffered a loss of appetite and had gone three to four days without eating.
As a result, her blood pressure had dropped and she was showing symptoms of dehydration.
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house in Rangoon, Burma (file image)
An intruder broke into Ms Suu Kyi's off-limits compound a week ago
Nyan Win said the party was closely monitoring the situation, and would decide next week whether to press for greater medical treatment for Ms Suu Kyi.
Nyan Win said it was not clear why physician Tin Myo Win had been arrested last Thursday.
He speculated that it could be linked to the arrest on Tuesday of a man carrying a US passport who swam across a lake to the property.
About 20 police are reported to have entered Ms Suu Kyi's house on Thursday morning.
It followed reports that an American, identified as John William Yeattaw, had managed to breach tight security to swim across Inya Lake and enter Ms Suu Kyi's house secretly on Sunday.
He was arrested after swimming back across the lake late on Tuesday.
Such an incident would be the first time someone has broken into Ms Suu Kyi's compound.
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
အေမဖ်ားေနတယ္
Saturday, May 9, 2009
စစ္အစိုးရ ျပစ္မႈ စံုစမ္းဖို႔ ၿဗိတိသွ် ပါလီမန္အမတ္ေတြ အဆိုျပဳ
07 May 2009
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္း လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈေတြဟာ လူသားမ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုအေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္တဲ့ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈေတြ ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရး ေကာ္မရွင္တရပ္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းၿပီး စစ္ေဆးေပးဖို႔ ၿဗိတိသွ် ပါလီမန္အမတ္ေတြက ဒီေန႔ပဲ ၿဗိတိသွ် ပါလီမန္မွာ အဆုိျပဳ တင္သြင္းလုိက္ပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းစုံကို ကုိသားၫြန္႔ဦးက တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။
ဒီအဆုိကို ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေရးအတြက္ ပါတီစုံပါတဲ့ ၿဗိတိသွ် ပါလီမန္အမတ္မ်ားအဖြဲ႕ရဲ႕ ဒုတိယဥကၠ႒ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ ဂၽြန္ဘေကာင္းက ဦးေဆာင္တင္သြင္းသြားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္း လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဒီအဖြဲ႕အေနနဲ႔ မၾကာမၾကာ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ စုိးရိမ္ပူပန္မႈကို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုဖူးပါတယ္။ ဒီေန႔ ၿဗိတိသွ်ပါလီမန္ မွာ တင္သြင္းတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့အေရး အဆုိျပဳခ်က္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး CSW ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ခရစ္ယာန္ ေသြးစည္းညီၫြတ္ေရးအဖြဲ႕ရဲ႕ ေျပာခြင့္ရသူတဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ အလစ္ဇာ ပါပါဒုိးရပ္စ္ကို ေမးျမန္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ၿဗိတိသွ်လႊတ္ေတာ္ထဲမွာ ဒီေန႔ ျမန္မာ့အေရး အဆုိျပဳခ်က္ကို ၿဗိတိသွ်လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဘယ္ေလာက္ေလာက္ ေထာက္ခံ ခဲ့ၾကပါသလဲ။
“ၿဗိတိသွ် ပါလီမန္အမတ္ေတြရဲ႕ ဒီအဆုိျပဳခ်က္ကို လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ၆၀ ေက်ာ္က လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီ အဆုိျပဳခ်က္ထဲမွာ ကုလသမဂၢ စုံစမ္းေရးေကာ္မရွင္တရပ္အေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္း လူသားမ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုအေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္တဲ့ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈေတြအတြက္ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေပးဖို႔ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအစိုးရေတြကို ေတာင္းဆုိထားတာပါ။ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံထားရတဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ လႊတ္ေပးဖို႔အခ်ိန္ကလည္း သီတင္း ၂ ပတ္ေလာက္ပဲ က်န္ေတာ့တာမုိ႔ ဒီအခ်ိန္ဟာ အခ်ိန္အခါေကာင္းပါပဲ။”
အခုလိုမ်ဳိး ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္းက လူသားမ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုအေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္တဲ့ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈဟုတ္မဟုတ္ ဒါကို စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေပးဖုိ႔ဆုိ ရင္ အခ်က္အလက္ေတြက ဘယ္ေလာက္အထိ အခုိင္အမာရွိလုိ႔ပါလဲ။
“ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အေရွ႕ဘက္ျခမ္းမွာ အရပ္သား ျပည္သူေတြအေပၚ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္တဲ့ အခ်က္အလက္ေတြကို စုေဆာင္းတင္ျပထားတဲ့ အစီရင္ခံစာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးရွိထားၿပီးသားပါ။ ဒါေတြဟာ လူသားမ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုအေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္တဲ့ ရာဇ၀တ္ျပစ္မႈေတြ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ယူဆေနသူေတြ၊ ယုံၾကည္ေနသူေတြလည္း အမ်ားႀကီးရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီအျဖစ္အပ်က္ဆုိးေတြ ကို က်မတို႔ CSW အေနနဲ႔ မွတ္တမ္းျပဳစုထားတာ ရွိသလို တျခားလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႕ေတြမွာလည္း မွတ္တမ္းမွတ္ရာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးရွိပါတယ္။”
ျပႆနာတခုကေတာ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္းက လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေနေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ ျမန္မာ့အိမ္နီးခ်င္း တ႐ုတ္ အပါအ၀င္ အာဆီယံႏုိင္ငံ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက ဒါေတြဟာ ျပည္တြင္းေရးပဲျဖစ္တယ္ဆုိၿပီး တစိုက္မတ္မတ္ ေျပာေနတာ ရွိပါတယ္။ တကယ္တမ္း ကုလသမဂၢအေနနဲ႔၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအေနနဲ႔ ဒီျပႆနာေတြဟာ Crimes against Humanity လူသား မ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုအေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္တဲ့ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈ ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ဆုိတာ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးဖုိ႔ ေကာ္မရွင္ဖြဲ႕ေရးမွာ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအားလုံးက ပါ၀င္လာႏုိင္ပါ့မလားခင္ဗ်။
“ဒီလုိျဖစ္ပ်က္ေနတာေတြကို ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းအေနနဲ႔ လက္ခံအသိအမွတ္ျပဳဖုိ႔ တာ၀န္ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီရာဇ၀တ္မႈ ေတြအတြက္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရးေကာ္မရွင္တရပ္ထားဖုိ႔ ႀကိဳးပမ္းရမယ့္အခ်ိန္ ေရာက္ေနပါၿပီ။ ျမန္မာျပည္သူ ေတြအေနနဲ႔ ဆက္ၿပီးဖိႏွိပ္ခံဖို႔ မျဖစ္ႏုိင္ေတာ့ပါဘူး။ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈေတြကလည္း သိသိသာသာႀကီးကို ေပၚလြင္ေနတာပါ။ ဒီေတာ့ တာ၀န္ရွိတဲ့ စစ္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြကို တရားဥပေဒနဲ႔အညီ အေရးယူဖုိ႔အတြက္ ကမၻာတ၀န္းႏုိင္ငံ အသီးသီးရဲ႕ အစိုးရေတြမွာ လုံး၀ တာ၀န္ရွိပါတယ္။”
ၿဗိတိသွ်ႏုိင္ငံအေျခစုိက္ CSW က ေျပာခြင့္ရသူတဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ အလစ္ဇာ ပါပါဒုိးရပ္စ္ ရွင္းျပသြားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
သူတုိ႔အေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္းက အခုလို လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈေတြဟာ Crimes against Humanity လူသား မ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုအေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္တဲ့ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈ ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ဆိုတာ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအေနနဲ႔ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေပးဖုိ႔၊ ဒီကေနၿပီး ICC
ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈ တရား႐ုံးအထိ တင္သြင္းဖို႔ ႀကိဳးစားသြားမယ္လို႔လည္း သူမက ေျပာဆုိခဲ့ပါတယ္။
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Friday, May 8, 2009
Myanmar ignores US request to see detained citizenအက်ဥ္းက်ခံေနရေသာ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံသားအားေတြ ခြင့္ျပဳရန္ေတာင္းဆိုမွဳအေပၚ ေခြးအစိုးရျငင္းဆန္
42 mins ago
YANGON, Myanmar – The U.S. Embassy in Myanmar said Friday the government has ignored its repeated requests for access to a detained American arrested for allegedly swimming to the lakeside home of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and sneaking inside.
The man's motives remained unclear, and the embassy said it has not been able to confirm any information since his Wednesday arrest was reported by state-controlled media, which identified him as "John Willian Yeattaw."
"We have made repeated requests to see him and we still have not been granted access," said embassy spokesman Richard Mei. "We would like to confirm the information ourselves and speak to the individual directly."
Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years, is rarely allowed visitors by Myanmar's ruling junta.
Asian diplomats in Myanmar quietly expressed concern that Suu Kyi could face stricter penalties if authorities found that she allowed the man to stay. They spoke on condition of anonymity saying they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
Her home is tightly guarded and she is not allowed visitors, aside from her doctor. On infrequent occasions she is allowed out under tight guard to meet with fellow party leaders and visiting U.N. representatives.
In addition, one of many strict rules the junta imposes on all citizens is that they must notify local officials about any overnight visitor who is not a family member. The law also states that foreigners are not allowed to spend the night at a local's home.
Some members of Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, have been jailed for about two weeks for violating that law.
Nyan Win, a spokesman for the party, noted that newspaper reports about the American's arrest said he had entered Suu Kyi's home but did not say he had met her. It remained unclear if the man was able to contact Suu Kyi.
"I'm not really concerned she could be penalized for this break-in because she didn't invite him in," Nyan Win said, adding that it was worrisome how easily the man accessed Suu Kyi's tightly guarded home. "My main concern is her security."
The state-run Myanma Ahlin newspaper reported Thursday that the man had confessed to swimming across Yangon's Inya Lake to Suu Kyi's home on Sunday night and then "secretly entered the house and stayed there." It said he left Tuesday and was arrested when "security personnel found a suspicious-looking foreigner swimming" early Wednesday morning.
It would be the first known instance that anyone has sneaked into Suu Kyi's compound or swam across the lake in an attempt to get there.
Suu Kyi has been held without trial for leading an internationally hailed movement for democracy in Myanmar, which has been ruled by the military with an iron fist since 1962. Her party won Myanmar's last elections in 1990 — a result the junta never recognized
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Burmese Border Discount Discontinued
May 6, 2009: A year ago, India quietly stopped selling weapons to Myanmar (Burma.) Five years ago, India had agreed to supply Myanmar (Burma) with weapons and military equipment, and two years ago offered to refurbish Myanmar's aging warplanes (mainly MiG-21s).
India shares a 1,500 kilometer border with Myanmar. That border is in an area where India has had problems with tribal separatists for decades. So supplying heavy weapons (mortars, rifles and machine-guns), a few helicopters and some repairs and upgrades to their MiG-21s, is a way to getting Myanmar to be more cooperative along the border. Some of the tribal rebel groups had established camps just across the border in Myanmar. A more cooperative Myanmar would shut down all those camps, and more aggressively patrol the area, to prevent the Indian tribals from setting up new ones. There has been some such cooperation in the past, and the arms sales were meant to encourage even more.
India and Bangladesh thus made an informal deal with Myanmar to drive rebels from each other's borders. Over the last few years, the three countries have worked out these deals, to rid themselves of rebel groups that had only survived because they could flee across the border and set up camp until their pursuers went away. For decades, Myanmar's neighbors avoided such cooperative relations, as a form of protest against the Burmese military dictatorship. But eventually, the need to deal with various rebel organizations overcame this distaste.
But Myanmar has continued to allow weapons to be sold to tribal rebels in northeastern India. It's believed that the tribal rebels are obtaining 80 percent of their weapons from Myanmar. Diplomacy has failed to stop the weapons coming into India. Myanmar has other sources, primarily China. This is also annoying to the Indians, because they see Myanmar aiding efforts to extend Chinese naval power into the Indian ocean.
Myanmar has been ruled by a military dictatorship for the last 45 years. The generals have run the economy into the ground, and succeeded in suppressing all attempts at establishing a representative government. They have also managed to maintain the support of a fairly large army. How have they managed to pull this off for so long? Simple, the generals have concentrated on maintaining the loyalty of the officers and senior NCOs in the armed forces. This is done by making the military a well paid, by Burmese standards, profession, and select carefully from among those who apply. Meanwhile, Myanmar gets all the weapons it needs from China. Many of the Indian items were free, or cut rate, but it appears that the Chinese have lowered their prices to match that.
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The camp will change but never be fallen or you can't stop that becase you can't ,.......all can't be change because of you
KNLA Wah Lay Kee base camp has fallen [with pictures] by Daniel Pederson
2009 May 7
tags: Burma, DKBA Killers, Genocide, Junta, Karen, KNLA, KNU, world focus on Burma
by peacerunning
KNLA Wah Lay Kee base camp has fallen [with pictures] wlkpic1Corporal Saw Jay was killed during the final push for Wah Lay Kee when he triggered a trip wire while leading a group of scouts in dense jungle.
by Daniel Pedersen on May.06, 2009, under Battles, Burma reportage
Daniel Pedersen
Mae Sot, Thailand
May 6, 2009
Pictures of the camp
The Karen National Liberation Army’s Wah Lay Kee base camp, home to its Sixth Brigade 201st Battalion has fallen.
Since 1988 the camp had been held against repeated attacks by soldiers of the Burma Army and later the breakaway Karen militia allied with Burma’s military junta the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army.
Hundreds of lives have been lost around the camp, and hundreds maimed by landmines and booby traps.
Last year the KNLA lost it then won it back right at the beginning of the wet season proper.
This year, it seems, the rain has come early, and Wah Lay Kee has been abandoned.
The final push by the ruling Burmese junta, the State Peace and Development Council, and the DKBA began on April 12.
In late afternoon of April 28, the KNLA pulled out, leaving the camp surrounded by landmines and the camp itself loaded with booby traps and tripwires.
These images tell the story of the continuing brutality of the Burma Army and their allied militias.
They were captured by medics and soldiers during the hectic final days of Wah Lay Kee.
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http://www.danielpedersen.org/?cat=20&album=3&gallery=15
Thanks to Daniel Pederson and salute to all these heroes
This is Truth by Junta and DKBA Killers
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What Burmese Army for? ဗမာ တပ္မေတာ္ သန္းေရႊ တပ္မေတာ္ ..... ေခြးတပ္မေတာ္ ဘာေတြ လုပ္ေနသလဲ ...ဖတ္ၾကည့္ေပါ့
Wed 6 May 2009
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Farmers in Burma’s northern Kachin State are being meted out ill treatment in the name of growing summer paddy by local Burmese Army battalions, said localfarmers.
Farmers, who are mainly into cultivation of monsoon paddy in Kachin State, are being forced to grow summer paddy. Some of their buffalos and oxen are being slaughtered for beef or sold for money in the market, while some are being used in the paddy fields for ploughing by Burmese Army troops, complained local farmers.
In Burma, summer paddy is grown in March and harvested in late May before the onset of the monsoons in June.
Last March, the Burmese Army’s Infantry Battalion (IB or Kha La Ya) No. 142 based in Dawhpumyang in Bhamo district deliberately drove seven heads of cattle into their summer paddy fields. Three cows were slaughtered while the rest received gun-shot wounds, said local farmers.
The current price of a cow is between 500,000 Kyat (US $490) and 600,000 Kyat (US $588) in Kachin State, said local farmers.
The cattle are owned by Kachin villagers in Dingga village in Dawhpumyang sub-township. They also grow summer paddy in the fields which are temporarily seized from Dingga farmers, according to farmers of the village.
Again on April 26, Burmese soldiers of IB No. 142 drove a herd of cattle belonging to Dingga farmers to the seized paddy fields and the cattle owners were threatened with imprisonment. The soldiers also demanded fines ranging between 30,000 Kyat (US $29) and 80,000 Kyat (US $78) per cow because the cattle ate their summer paddy, added local farmers.
Local farmers said the soldiers fence their summer paddy fields only on one side and the cattle enter the fields from the sides without fences.
At the moment, farmers in Dingga village are spending their days in nightmarish conditions because they may be fined or imprisoned when they check for their cattle in the summer paddy fields where soldiers deliberately drive cattle, the farmers said.
Similarly, another Burmese Army battalion, IB No. 58, based in Waingmaw town is also treating local farmers shabbily in the name of growing summer paddy, said farmers in Waingmaw.
Farmers who grow paddy in monsoon by using water from Washong Dam, the government’s irrigation project, have been ordered to grow summer paddy with their own money by the IB No. 58, said farmers.
Some farmers’ paddy fields have been temporarily seized by soldiers. Again the local people’s cattle entering the summer paddy fields are also slaughtered by soldiers, according to sources close to cattle owners.
Most farmers in Kachin State are reluctant to grow summer paddy because the farmers cannot start ploughing monsoon paddy in time. They have to skip cultivating monsoon paddy because of the summer paddy, said local farmers.
Usually, farmers in Kachin State rely on monsoon paddy which starts to grow from June and they do not need to put much effort to grow it, said local farmers.
Meanwhile, the Burmese military junta is forcibly selling a new variety of paddy seed to farmers in Kahcin State for 7,000 Kyat equivalent to US $ 6.8 per Tin (1 Tin = 40.9 Litre) and claiming that Kachin State will be the fourth largest rice producing state in the country. This is being proclaimed by pasting posters around Kachin State.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
ေခြးေလာက္မွ အသိတရားမရွိ ကိုယ္ ့အမ်ိဳ းကိုယ္ ့ျပန္သတ္ေနေသာ ေက်ာ္သန္း DKBA-saw-kyaw-san
စစ္ေခြးအစို းရဲ ့အရိုးအရင္းေလာက္နဲ ့ပိတိျဖစ္ယစ္မူးေနျပီး ကိုယ္ ့အမ်ိဳ းကိုယ္ျပန္သတ္ေနေသာ ကရင္ခြဲထြက္အမ်ိဳးယုတ္ေက်ာ္သန္းရဲ ့ပံု ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကရင္လူထုရဲ ့ထမင္းဟင္းကို အရြယ္ေရာက္တဲ ့အထိ စားေသာက္ျပီး သာရာစား ေက်ာ္သန္းနဲ ့အဖြဲ ့ ၁၉၉၅-၉၆ မွာ စစ္အၾကမ္းဖက္အုပ္စု ျဖစ္တဲ ့ သန္းေရႊတို ့ထံ မွာ ေျခေထာက္ ကုန္းနမ္းေနခဲ ့တာ အခုခ်ိန္ထိပါဘဲ။
Burmese lawyers says junta should be taken to ICC -International Criminal Court
တိုင္းျပည္ကို ထင္သလို ရမ္းကား အုပ္စိုးလ်က္ရွိေသာ စစ္အၾကမ္းဖက္ အုပ္စုအား စစ္ခံုရံုးသိုပို ့ ့ေဆာင္ရန္သင့္ျပီဟုု
by Mungpi
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 19:16
New Delhi – The Burma Lawyers’ Council in exile has said it is gathering evidence and collating ideas on how to produce the Burmese military generals in the International Criminal Court (ICC), for the crimes it had committed, including crimes against humanity.
The BLC, formed with Burmese lawyers in exile, on Tuesday said, it was looking for a way to file a case against the Burmese junta, for its crimes against the country’s citizens.
“We are looking at ways to determine how we can file a case against the junta, for their brutal actions against the Burmese people,” Thein Oo, Chairman of the BLC, told Mizzima.
He said, as a step towards looking for a way to bring the junta to the ICC, the BLC along with the International Federation for Human Rights (IFDH) is bringing together international experts, Burmese activists and others to a two-day seminar in Bangkok.
“This seminar is to brainstorm on how best to get justice for the suffering people in Burma and how the international community can take action against the brutal regime,” Thein Oo said.
The campaign to bring the Burmese military junta to the ICC began about two years ago, with a vague idea by the BLC. However, today, it has gained momentum and is able to draw the attention of international experts as well as the Burmese regime.
On Friday, May 1, 2009, Burma’s military regime in its official mouthpiece, the New Light of Myanmar, declared the Burma Lawyers’ Council and other associated organizations and persons as unlawful.
The paper said, acts of the BLC and its members were harmful for the stability of the nation and therefore, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), Snr Gen Than Shwe declared the BLC and its members unlawful.
Although this gesture of the Burmese regime may seem to be a mere coincidence, sources in the military establishment told Mizzima, the junta fears that the BLC’s efforts might gain greater momentum.
According to sources, the Burmese embassy in Bangkok was diplomatically approaching Thailand, where the seminar is being held on May 4 and 5.
During the seminar, Burmese activists and international experts discussed how the regime had perpetrated human rights abuses with impunity and how they could be made accountable for the crimes they had committed.
But, as Burma has not rectified the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court in July 2002, the ICC does not have any jurisdiction over Burma.
However, a clause under the statute of Territorial Jurisdiction of the treaty allows the ICC to act on a case based on a referral by the United Nations Security Council. The clause says the court is allowed to exercise jurisdiction, “where a situation is referred to the court by the UN Security Council”.
Thein Oo said, “The case of the UN Security Council referring it to the ICC might not take place soon but we are already in the process of campaigning for it.”
He said, they would present the case to the UNSC explaining how Burma’s military regime’s actions were threatening peace and security in the region.
Rights groups have accused Burma’s military junta of systematically abusing the rights of its own citizens, causing outflow of a large number of refugees and migrants. The junta’s military actions in eastern Burma have also particularly caused thousands of people to become homeless and live in the jungles.
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